No, we won;t agree to that because nobody was ever discussing Australia, we were discussing “the driest state, of the driest country, of the driest continent in the world”
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Western Australia has dam storage for urban and agricultural use. It even has a Murray River![./quote]
So the problem can be solved by building more dams, contrary to your claim that is an insoluble problem caused by immigration.
So the problem can be solved by building more ground-water and desalination plants, contrary to your claim that is an insoluble problem caused by immigration.
No, we won;t agree to that because nobody was ever discussing Australia, we were discussing “the driest state, of the driest country, of the driest continent in the world”
I won’t bother responding by point… You seem set in your ways and unopen to different views, so discussion is futile.
Oh dear. To be clear, I started this by replying to “the driest state in the driest continent” - with a “that would be here.” Which is South Australia.
SA has had a pretty evil time with water. Up to half our city water gets pumped from the Murray River - which by the time it gets here is a pretty poor quality of water. When the bad droughts were upon us there was so little flow in the river that orchardists along the river were simply letting entire orchards die. The large lakes that the Murray feeds drained, and the smaller of the lakes essentially dried out. The annual sailing races across the larger lake were cancelled for a couple of years due to lack of water. Water restrictions for urban dwellers were enough that many let their gardens die. A green lawn was a magnet for roaming inspectors. Washing a car was right out. The state government later built a massive desalination plant - at massive cost. Since it was completed we have not had another drought.
Australia is a big place, it encompasses nearly every possible climate (although some examples are very localised.) We are affected by el Nino/ la Nina events, in the south. Sea surface temperature in the Indian Ocean is probably the biggest determinant of normal rainfall in SA. But the north of the continent is mostly influenced by equatorial weather patterns, and tropical cyclones can stretch influence right down the entire main continent at times. One can get well over an inch of rain in a day when a cyclone is over the Kimberly and it pumps moisture over the continent. Then it won’t rain again for two months. Which is why we say - it never rains, but it pours.
In all this, with all the water restrictions, I have always rinsed my washing up.
I fill the sink, put in a little detergent and wash glasses, cutlery, ceramic ware then pots and pans. All are put into a rack next to the sink and put in the cupboards the next morning while making breakfast.
It was just the way our mum (from the UK) taught us.
Hope I haven’t quoted you out of context here. Isn’t the economy directly related to (population x consumption). Australians export our water overseas (embedded in materials) to feed overseas people in exchange for crap made by overseas people.
So, our water is being consumed by overseas population driven by our high consumption demand by our rapidly growing population.